Patterns of follicular growth in superovulated sheep and influence on endocrine and ovarian response

Reproduction in Domestic Animals

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 357-361

  Gonzalez Bulnes, A ^a   Garcia Garcia, R M ^a   Souza, C J H ^b   Santiago Moreno, J ^a   Lopez Sebastian, A ^a   Cocero, M J ^a   Baird, D T ^b  

^a INIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION; SHEEP; SUPEROVULATION;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036952442     PISSN: 09366768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0531.2002.00385.x     Document Type: Article

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